A as soon as well-known Racquet Membership resort in Montego Bay was demolished to make approach for the development of an 8-story luxurious condominium complicated
Jamaica Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, was on the location over the weekend to interrupt floor for the brand new challenge.
Mr. Bartlett welcomed the event as “the rebirth of the Racquet Membership” and reminded that the Montego Bay Racquet Membership Condominiums and Spa “comes with a wealthy historical past in tourism which will show fairly helpful within the problem to recapture that historical past whereas catering to that new breed of world vacationers who journey throughout the globe in success of their ardour and a quest for journey.”
The unique Racquet Membership was a playground for worldwide celebrities akin to famend film stars Charlton Heston, Kirk Douglas and the previous “queen of Hollywood” Elizabeth Taylor, in addition to tennis greats Don Budge, Arthur Ashe and others.
The brand new Racquet Membership is certainly one of 4 tasks – three in Montego Bay and the opposite in Kingston at a mixed price of J$8 billion, being developed by the Jamaican agency, Boria Ltd. Mr. Bartlett mentioned it represented a possibility for the power to draw and preserve a brand new breed of vacationers often known as the “Digital Nomads which might be high-end, which might be senior officers in corporations, are nicely positioned and excessive yielding.”
He additionally welcomed the social wellness facet of the event which, in accordance with Boria’s Founder and Chairman, Eugene Ffolkes Jnr, shall be centered on well being and wellness with a social wellness membership that includes six courts for tennis and pickle-ball, a spa, two gyms and a café. There may even be a sky lounge and a swimming pool on the eighth flooring.
Mr. Bartlett mentioned:
“The low-density condominium mixed-use improvement, wrapped within the trendy know-how and conveniences of the twenty first century is the sort of assertion that we wish to have made concerning the new product providing of Vacation spot Jamaica.”
He acknowledged that constructing out capability to proceed the booming progress in tourism was essential and along with the Montego Bay Racquet Membership Condominiums and Spa, two different tasks, certainly one of them a 25-storey complicated, are to be in-built Montego Bay.
“We wish extra Jamaicans to be investing within the tourism product; that is our product; that is our trade; we wish to ensure that post-COVID tourism is inclusive and that inclusiveness means proudly owning, managing and defending your house and making your house secure, safe and seamless,” mentioned Minister Bartlett.
Amongst different contributors within the ground-breaking ceremony had been Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Nationwide Safety and Member of Parliament for Northwest St. James, Dr. Horace Chang and Assistant Basic Supervisor and Chief Growth Financing Officer for the Jamaica Nationwide Group, Carlton Earl Samuels.